An SFS is like food. You can get all that fiber by eating TONS of potatoes, rice, pasta, etc (well, large quantities anyway). You wouldn't think eating lots of rice would affect your pregnancy, would you? Think of the the SFS as of a food. Yes some people have food alergies, that's true, but I think acacia alergies are pretty rare (at least rare on thie board).
Magnesium Citrate is a very gentle laxative that, unlike Miralax (a prescription laxative) does NOT cause gas. It's cool.
You say you have gas. Of the SF things rice is known to cause the least gas (well, they all cause very little gas, but rice causes the least).
How I put IF in my routine? Well...
Breakfast: Oatmeal (it has IF as much as SF)
Snack: Apple with peel
Lunch/Dinner: soup or entree with a SF base with some vegies such as small amounts of peas, onions, celery, roasted peppers (Yay), mushrooms.
The SF/IF dance involves the fact that you need IF to go. IF, however causes cramps, so you take SF with it to buffer it. For C-ers, we need more IF than most people, so we also need more SF to buffer it. So we either need to eat ENORMOUS amounts of rice/potatoes/sf vegies (enormous, really, you don't want to do that), or take a SFS with our food to help us eat our IF. That's why an SFS is so important. Because without it we can't get the IF we need to go regularly... unless we are up for the pain IF would cause alone.
I strongly urge you to get some kind of SFS, whether acacia or some other kind. I find acacia good, because it is tasteless and odorless. I hated metamucil (and it's bad for us too, because it has IF in it) for the taste, Fibercon was in gigantic horse pills... I haven't tried other kinds, since I found acacia pretty early.
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